They say elephants don’t forget, and neither do Alabama football players, apparently.
Florida State quarterback Thomas Castellanos made some disparaging remarks about the Tide earlier in the summer, and while most of the players have remained silent, they still feel disrespected by what was said.
Castellanos said that Alabama has lost its bite, so to speak, now that Nick Saban is gone.
“They don’t have Nick Saban to save them,” Castellanos said. “I just don’t see them stopping me.”
Although Castellanos tried to walk back his comments by claiming he was just trying to fire his teammates up, some Alabama football players didn’t see it that way and clearly want Castellanos to pay.
Including LT Overton, who has this message for Castellanos.
“We played a shifty, mobile quarterback every day in practice last year,” Overton said. “So, it’s nothing different, just being able to keep them contained, keeping our rush lanes and stay in check and making sure he doesn’t want the ball in his hands anymore.”
Safety Bray Hubbard knows that to make that happen, they have to keep a close eye on Castellanos.
“Honestly, it’s just being disciplined with your eyes,” Hubbard told reporters. “Your eyes are gonna take you everywhere. So, focusing in on our keys that we got to see to help stop them. When you have a running quarterback, like Florida State have, like Vanderbilt and Oklahoma and all them, you have to stay disciplined with your eyes. That’s where that’s where you get messed up, even at the linebacker position too, with D Law (Deontae Lawson) and all them. We all have to be disciplined with our eyes when we playing in the box .”
The Tide struggled last year against dual-threat quarterback’s and they hope to avoid that this time and prove to the FSU quarterback that he talked about the wrong set of elephants.